General background Commentary Technology Regulation Chemicals/toxicology Animal biotechnology Anti GMO Ethics

Food safety Environmental issues Gene flow and adventitious presence Surveys/economics Organics Legal/patent issues Developing world and food security Risk perception Previous course web sites

1. Nutritional and Safety Assessments of Foods and Feeds Nutritionally Improved through Biotechnology: Case Studies: Institute of Food Technologists, Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety 2007
   Detailed, authoritative, up to date discussions of science and regulation for several traits and crop types.
2. Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology Agricultural Biotechnology News and Information - also see their many other conference reports and proceedings on nearly all biotech issues
3. AGNET - Food Safety Network - great place to search for news articles on issues
4. AgBioForum - journal on biotechnology economics, business, management
5. Amer Soc Plant Biologists - Public Affairs - Statement on Genetic Modification of Plants Using Biotechnology, and other information on plant scientist views
6. USDA AC21 Consensus Report on Opportunities and Challenges in Agricultural Biotechnology - Diverse, high level committee summary of current state of all the big biotech issues
7. ASK Force - Amman - EFB Forum | Powered By ExpressionEngine - Euro-centric source for information on biotech issues and regulation
8. State GMO laws: Seed & Plant Law Preemption Tracker
9. Regulations USDA - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) - Biotechnology
10. GMO crop resource page (Useful images and data for term papers - from Wayne Parrot web site - U Georgia)
11. Information Systems for Biotechnology - Resources and Field Trial Databases
12. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO searchable database on international food biotechnology
13. Wisconsin GMO report 2006 The Why Files | GM crops: Where are the dead bodies?
14. Wisconsin GMO 2006 Part II The Why Files | Genetic food safety
15. The benefits of Biotech Conko 2003
16. Database of scientific papers on benefits from GM crops - from industry supported CropLife
17. 2004 Class readings - Resource Biotechnologies: Science and Safety

1. Bailey-A Tale of Two Scientific Consensuses 2007
2. Taverne- The real GM food scandal 2007
3. Superweed study falters as seed firms deny access to transgene, Nature news 2002
4. Silver-The biotechnology culture clash 2006
5. Editorial: Another inconvenient truth 2007
6. Miller et al-Is biotechnology a victim of anti-science bias in scientific journals? 2008
7. Viewpoint: On the origin of specious critics 1985
8. Taverne-The new fundamentalism 2005
9. Miller et al-Why spurning food biotech has become a liability 2006
10. Staehelin- Genetically Modified Foods Safer Than Organic 2003
11. Juma-Biotechnology in a Globalizing World: The Coevolution of Technology and Social Institutions 2005
12. European GMO labeling thresholds impractical and unscientific 2006
13. Graff & Zilberman-Explaining Europe's Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology 2004
14. Craddock-Flies in the soup-European GM labeling legislation 2004

1. Rommens- Intragenic Crop Improvement: Combining the Benefits of Traditional Breeding and Genetic Engineering 2007

1. Bradford-Compliance costs for regulatory approval of new biotech crops 2007
2. Wolt- Genetically modified crops for the bioeconomy: meeting public and regulatory expectations 2007
3. Marchant-From General Policy to Legal Rule: Aspirations and Limitations of the Precautionary Principle 2003
4. Kershen-Health and Food Safety: The Benefi ts of Bt-Corn 2006
5. Romeis et al-Assessment of risk of insect-resistant transgenic crops to nontarget arthropods 2008
6. Chassey-Food safety evaluation of crops produced through biotechnology 2002
7. Inst Food Technologists (IFT) Expert Report on Biotechnology and Foods 2000

1. Pesticides in the Nation's Streams and Ground Water, 1992-2001 USGS 2006 Report
2. Union of Concerned Scientist-The Economics of Pharmaceutical Crops 2005
3. Plant molecular farming: systems and products 2004
4. Biopharmaceuticals from GM plants QJ Medicine 2004
5. Peterson & Arntzen-On risk and plant-based biopharmaceuticals - Trends in Biotechnology, 2004
6. Goldstein & Thomas-Biopharmaceuticals derived from genetically modified plants - QJ Med, 2004
7. Ma et al Producn Recomb Pharm in Plants Nature Rev Genet 2003
8. Pharming the Field- PEW, 2003
9. Thomas et al. Producn therapeutic proteins in plants AgBio Univ Calif 2002

1. IP and native biodiversity Gepts 2004
2. Rudenko et al-Animal cloning and the FDA-the risk assessment paradigm under public scrutiny 2007
3. Yang et al-Risk assessment of meat and milk from cloned animals 2007
4. Silver-The Environment's Best Friend GM or Organic? 2006
5. Report of Animal Welfare Aspects of the use of Bovine Somatotropin (BST) 1999
6. The PEW Charitable Trusts site of Agricultural Biotechnology
7. Pro and con to FDA animal cloning position
8. Federation of Animal Science Societies - news on animal biotech issues

1. Physicians for Social Responsibility - Oregon - anti-GMO campaigns
2. GMO Crops, a decade of failure, Friends of the Earth report - 1994-2004

1. Thompson-Food and Agricultural Biotechnology: Incorporating Ethical Considerations 2000
2. FAO- 2001 Ethical issues in food and agriculture
3. Thompson-Value Judgments and Risk Comparisons. The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops 2003
4. Rollins-"On Telos and Genetic Engineering" chapter 51

1. Ramessar et al-Biosafety and risk assessment framework for selectable marker genes in transgenic crop plants: a case of the science not supporting the politics 2007
2. Demaneche et al-Antibiotic-resistant soil bacteria in transgenic plant fields 2008
3. Baudo et al-Transgenesis has less impact on the transcriptome of wheat grain than conventional breeding 2006
4. Catchpole et al-Hierarchical metabolomics demonstrates substantial compositional similarity between genetically modified and conventional potato crops 2005

1. Ammann-Effects of biotechnology on biodiversity: herbicide-tolerant and insect-resistant GM crops 2005
2. Shelton et al-Economic, Ecological, Food Safety, And Social Consequences Of The Deployment Of Bt Transgenic Plants 2002
3. Kleter et al- Altered pesticide use on transgenic crops and the associated general impact from an environmental perspective 2007
4. Beck-How Best to Look Forward? 2007
5. Icoz & Stotzky-Fate and effects of insect-resistant Bt crops in soil ecosystems 2008
6. Drakare et al-The imprint of the geographical, evolutionary
   and ecological context on species--area relationships 2006
7. Swiss Ecological impacts of genetically modified crops 2006
8. ISB News Report-Taking Aim at a Peaceful Coexistence: Ecological Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops: Ten Years of Field Research and Commercial Cultivation (p. 6-8)
9. Cattaneo et at-Farm-scale evaluation of the impacts of transgenic cotton on biodiversity, pesticide use, and yield 2006

1. Action needed to harmonize regulation of low-level presence of biotech traits 2008
2. CAST Gene Flow 2007
3. USDA AC21 Consensus Report - Global Traceability and Labeling Requirements
4. Hills et al-Genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs): strategies to impede transgene movement 2007
5. Robinson: Zero tolerance is the problem Farm Press 2006
6. ISB News Report-GE rice contamination controversy 2006 - p. 1-3
7. Ellstrand-Going to "Great Lengths" to Prevent the Escape of Genes That Produce Specialty Chemicals 2003
8. CAST Issue Paper-Implications of Gene Flow in the Scale-up and Commercial Use of Biotechnology-derived Crops: Economic and Policy Considerations 2007
9. USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Ag Consensus Report - Global Traceability and Labeling Requirements

1. Gaskell-Science policy and society: the British debate over GM agriculture 2004
2. Brookes & Barfoot-GM Crops: The Global Economic and Environmental Impact-The First Nine Years 1996-2004; 2005

1. Winter & Davis-Organic Food 2006
2. Readers Digest-Does Organic Mean Healthier? 2007
3. Cloud-Eating better than organic 2007
4. Organic Food IFT's latest Scientific Status Summary comprehensively compares organic and conventional foods; Synopsis 2006
5. Trewavas-Urban myths of organic farming - Nature, 2001
6. Organic: Is it the future of farming? - Nature, 2004

1. THE FUTURE CONTROL OF FOOD A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security 2008
2. IP aspects of plant transformation Dunwell 2005
3. Plants and IP International Science 2004
4. Kowalski et al-Transgenic crops, biotechnology and ownership rights: what scientists need to know 2002
5. Williamson-Gene Patents: socially acceptable monopolies or an unnecessary hindrance to research? 2001
6. Boettiger & Bennett-Gene patents: socially acceptable monopolies or an unnecessary hindrance to research? 2006
7. Graff et al- The public-private structure of intellectual property ownership in agricultural biotechnology 2003
8. Miller et al-Why spurning food biotech has become a liability 2006

1. Borlaugh-Sixty-two years of Wghting hunger: personal recollections 2007
2. Krawinkel_NatureBiotech_Glden Rice commentary 2007 Nat Biotec
3. Stein_NatureBiotech_response Golden Rice 2007
4. GM technology in developing world Science 2007
5. Developing world biotech Delmer PNAS 2006
6. Raney-Economic impact of transgenic crops in developing countries 2006
7. Cohen-Economic impact of transgenic crops in developing countries 2005
8. Sanchez & Swaminathan-Cutting World Hunger in Half 2005
9. Gonsalves et al-Transgenic Virus Resistant Papaya: From Hope to Reality for Controlling Papaya Ringspot Virus in Hawaii 2004
10. De Greff-The Cartagena Protocol and the future of biotech - Nature Biotechnology, 2004
11. World Hunger: 12 Myths - Second Edition, pp. 1 - 41
12. Toenniessen et al-Advances in plant biotechnology and its adoption in developing countries, 2003
13. Huang et al-Enhancing crops to feed the poor 2002
14. Conway & Toenniessen-Feeding the world 21st century - Nature, 1999

1. Nisbet & Mooney-FramingScience 2007
2. Checker-"But I Know It's True": Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology 2007
3. Lang & Hallman-Who Does the Public Trust? The Case of Genetically Modified Food in the United States 2005
4. Slovic-Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science: Surveying the Risk-Assessment Battlefield 1999
5. Rustichini-Emotion and Reason in Making Decisions - Science, 2005
6. Finucane et al- Gender, race, and perceived risk: the `white male' effect 2000
7. Martino et al- Frames, Biases, and Rational Decision-Making in the Human Brain - Science, 2006

1. Spring Term 2008
2. Spring Term 2007